WW2 rationing
Rationing game board
Subject:
History
Age group:
8 – 11, 12 - 14
Topic:
World War II
This resource was originally developed by L. Webster and has been adapted for EAL Nexus.
EAL Nexus – free downloadable teaching materials https://eal.britishcouncil.org/
© Bell Educational Trust 2016
Learner instructions
 This is a game for 3 or 4 players. One of the players is the shopkeeper, the other two or
three are shoppers.
 Decide how long the game is going to last – e.g. 15 minutes.
 Each shopper needs a ration card.
 Each shopper needs a token to move around the board and enough counters to
cover up the foods on their ration card.
 Each shopper places his or her token on ‘Start’.
 The first shopper rolls the dice. They move the number of spaces on the dice. They
can choose to move in either direction around the board (clockwise or
anticlockwise). They must then ask the shopkeeper if they can buy the type of food in
the square they land on: e.g. ‘Please can I have 25g tea?’
 The shopkeeper then looks at their ration card to see if they have used their ration for
that food. If they still have a square that says 25g tea the shopkeeper says ‘Yes, you
can’ and they cover one tea square with a counter. If not, the shopkeeper says ‘No,
sorry, you’ve had your tea ration’, and the play moves on to the next shopper.
 The winner is the shopper who has filled the most squares on their ration card at the
end of the agreed time.
Start
25g
bacon
1 pint of
milk
20g jam
25g
cheese
30g
sweets
carrots
potatoes
potatoes
apples
apples
10g
butter
25g
cheese
25g
bacon
The Rationing Game
20g jam
30g
sweets
25g
cheese
1 pint of
milk
25g tea
25g
bacon
1 pint of
milk
25g
cheese
apples
10g
butter
carrots
20g jam
30g
sweets
1 egg
25g tea
10g
butter
potatoes
10g
butter
Tokens to move around the board
Counters to place on ration card
Image attributions
Apples: https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2013/11/20/23/00/nice-apples-214170_960_720.jpg public domain via pixabay.
Bacon: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Made20bacon.png By Made20rder555 (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia
Commons
Butter: https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2013/09/27/09/53/butter-186909_960_720.jpg public domain via pixabay.
Carrots: http://www.picserver.org/pictures/carrots01-lg.jpg By NY - http://nyphotographic.com/
Cheese: https://pixabay.com/en/cheese-cheesy-closeup-close-up-1238395/ Public domain via pixabay.
Eggs: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/6-Pack-Chicken-Eggs.jpg By Evan-Amos (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia
Commons.
Jam: https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2014/04/02/10/47/strawberry-304544_960_720.png public domain via Pixabay.
Milk: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Milk_-_olly_claxton.jpg Pingpongwill at English Wikipedia [GFDL
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Potatoes: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/30000/velka/isolated-potatoes.jpg
Ration book: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Sample_UK_Childs_Ration_Book_WW2.jpg By The National Archives UK (Your Ration
Book Uploaded by oaktree_b) [No restrictions or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sweets: https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5605/15638334378_9c554d6bef_b.jpg Round sweets of red and yellow color by Michael Stern
Tea: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Mug_of_Tea.JPG By Factorylad (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.